Hi, Janina! I just wrote the same advice to Brad on another list. What a coincidence! Regards, Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 8:48 AM Subject: Standalone E-Mail > Hi, Brett: > > I just wanted to drop you note about how I handle mail on my notebook > computer. Needless to say, it's off-line a lot. First, it's not my main > machine when I'm in the office, and it's off-line a lot when I travel > because I'm on a plane, or something. Becides, in places like Europe, it's > far too expensive to just leave it up online from one's hotel room. > > So, here's what I do. I hope it helps you: > > 1.) I use fetchmail to get all of my incoming mail from my isp after > establishing a ppp connection; > > 2.) Since I use sendmail as my mailor, I then issue the command -- > > sendmail -q0 > > that's send mail dash q zero > > to dump the messages that have been qued for transmittal. > > This works because sendmail is not loaded as a daemon on my system. It's > only active when I issue the command above, or another specific sendmail > command. > > This way, I can write all the messages I want in Pine without trouble, > whether or not I'm writing on the airplane, or at my desk in my room, and > whether or not I'm online when I write them. They're simply qued for later > transmittal, which is accomplished by the sendmail -q0 command once I'm > online. > > PS: I've also set the smtp address in my Pine configuration to my isp. > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Information Systems Research & Development > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > janina at afb.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
